Researcher working on problems intersecting the areas of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning (ML). As a Lecturer at Surrey Institute for People-Centred AI and School of CS and EE, I lead teaching on the NLP module for undergraduate and postgraduate students. As a research lead, I manage Human-Machine Interaction theme within PAI, and NLP research at the Nature Inspired Computing and Engineering group (NICE) group within the Computer Science Research Centre.
My research focuses on scalable approaches using foundation models for safe human-machine, and human-human interaction, within social and personal digital spaces. With a People-Centred focus, my existing work contributes to low-resource languages and addressing societal challenges like digital accessibility, online toxicity, and misinformation. Other than these, my interests lie in modelling information from cognitive behaviour (Cognitive NLP), language and multimodal information modelling for machine understanding. Our research outcomes like data, code, and computational models are regularly shared publicly at SurreyNLP Github, and HuggingFace spaces.
I was a research fellow at the Centre for Translation Studies, and continue to collaborate on relevant areas. I completed a Joint PhD from the IITB-Monash Research Academy [IIT Bombay, India & Monash University, Australia], and currently work with industry and academic partners, on areas from above. Before starting my PhD, I was a Research Engineer at the CFILT Lab where my investigations led to publications in diverse sub-areas of NLP and AI.
Doctor of Philosophy, 2021
IITB - Monash Research Academy
Bachelor of Technology (CSE), 2013
Uttar Pradesh Technical University
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ACL Professional Conduct Committee (2021 - 2023)
Assisted Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya in conducting the course on ‘Speech, Natural Language Processing and the Web’ (CS626). [Autumn 2020]
Assisted Prof. Kavi Arya in conducting theory and practical lab course on Embedded Systems (CS684). [Spring 2020]
Assisted Prof. Kavi Arya in conducting course on Software Lab (PG) (CS699). [Autumn 2019]
Awarded TA of the Semester by Computer Science and Engineering Department.
Assisted Prof. Rushikesh Joshi in conducting theory course on Software Architecture (CS718). [Spring 2019]
Assisted Prof. R.K. Shyamsundar in conducting theory course Data Structures (CS213). [Autumn 2018]
Assisted Prof. Kavi Arya in conducting course on Software Lab (UG) (CS251). [Autumn 2017]
Awarded TA of the Semester by Computer Science and Engineering Department.
Assisted Prof. Supratik Chakraborty in conducting theory course on Digital Logic Design (CS226). [Spring 2017]
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